A/N: I know this is a little late - I thought I'd already said it- but Happy New Year!
"Oh this isn't going to end well for us." Rob groaned as he moved the car four places, landing on Park Place.
"Cough up, Rob!" Skye told him, handing out her hand for the money he now owed her and Ward.
"We can't afford it! I guess this means we're out" Sue said.
The team had settled down to a game of pairs monopoly (there were too many of them to play as individuals). Ward and Skye were currently winning, having made shocking and slightly strange investment choices, followed by Coulson and May, Tilly and Carl, Romanov and Hawkeye, Toby and his new 'friend' that they had affectionately called Vanessa, Fitz and Simmons and Rob and Sue.
They handed over the last of their money and sat back to watch the rest of the game.
It was now early evening and they had been playing for hours, but with the teams added surprise in the game it was far too interesting to leave or stop playing. They had combined monopoly with Jenga, so if you wanted to build a house or hotel on your property then you had to remove a piece and place it on the top of the tower. If the tower collapsed you couldn't have your house.
"Our go! We'd like to put a hotel on Park Place." Skye said
Ward reached forwards to the leaning tower of Jenga. He focussed on the piece he wanted and it slowly started to move. Once it was free enough for him to take hold of he reached out, took the piece and moved it to the top.
Before he dropped it on the top, he focussed his attention on it again and as his eyes turned blue the piece landed carefully on the top.
Skye rolled the dice and Ward moved their top hat the five spaces she had rolled.
Skye's phone started ringing, so sitting back in her chair she picked it up and answered it.
"Nadia?"
Ward could hear murmuring on the other end and managed to distinguish the words 'broken' and 'attacked'. His senses were immediately put on alert.
"You need to get out of there." Skye told her.
Ward could hear more mumbling that sounded like she had tried. There was a muffled bang on the line.
"WAS THAT A GUNSHOT?" Skye shouted down the phone.
"Where is she?" Ward asked, making the decision to go and get her.
"Nadia, where are you?"
More mumbling. Skye wrote her location down on a piece of paper and handed it to Ward.
"Ok. We're coming to get you." She promised as Ward and Toby headed out of the door.
Romanov, Hawkeye, Tilly, Carl and May all made to go with them.
"No you don't. Ward can handle one guy."
"But how come Toby can go?" Romanov pouted. The one thing she hated more than anything was woman beaters.
"He doesn't get out in the field much due to that problem with his ankle, this is simple enough to show him what an idiot enough he was for destroying it." Coulson told them, watching as they all looked out after Ward and Toby, pouting because they can't go too.
"So whose go is it?" Rob asked, trying to lighten the mood.
"Toby's." They all cried.
Ward and Toby approached the house an hour later. Ward waved Toby around the side in case things went wrong and he walked up the front path.
He knocked on the door and waited for an answer.
It took a couple of minutes, but a balding, slightly overweight man answered.
"What the hell do you want?" he asked Ward.
"I'm here to see Nadia."
"She's not here."
"Mind if I come in to verify that?"
"Yes."
"Fair enough, but I know she's currently terrified of you and curling up and hiding in the bathroom."
"Who are you?"
"A friend." Ward stated, brushing past him into the front room. "Now, I am going to go upstairs and get Nadia. I am going to stay with her and watch her as she packs a bag before I take her home with me."
"It's not going to happen."
"It will happen and you can either let it, or resist me and suffer the concequences."
The balding man laughed at Ward.
"You do realise I was recruited into Special Forces don't you?"
"Yeah. I know."
It was that point Toby came down the stairs leading a teary eyed Nadia and carrying a small holdall.
"HOW DARE YOU BREAK INTO MY HOME!" the balding man yelled.
"It's not breaking in if you open the window and step back." Toby pointed out.
The balding man rushed at Ward, who saw the blade of a knife and reacted to it. He caught the knife wielding hand and twisted it at the wrist.
"Toby, take Nadia and head out to the car. I want a word with my new friend here." Ward instructed, strengthening the twist as the balding man tried to escape Ward's death grip.
Toby led Nadia to the door, but she turned to watch Ward.
He had disarmed the man and thrown him across the room. Once the man had regained his bearings he hauled himself to his feet and rushed at Ward again.
Ward spun him round so he was facing the wall, kicked his knees so he was in a kneeling position and wrapped his arm around his throat.
"You may have been recruited into special forces, but I was recruited out of them to join the most elite team in the world. Now Nadia is coming with me, when you get the divorce papers sign then and return them promptly and don't you ever come looking for her again. Am I clear?" Ward said to him, bending down and placing his mouth next to the balding man's ear.
He nodded in Ward's grasp.
"Good!" Ward said happily, bringing his elbow down into the balding man's neck, rendering him unconscious.
He dropped the man to the floor and looked up.
"I thought you were divorcing this creep?" he asked Nadia, who had run to Ward as soon as she knew it was safe to do so. Carefully he wrapped his arms around her in support and guided her back to the car.
"At least there's no bullets this time." She joked as she climbed in.
"Or Interns trying to kill us with their driving." Ward said, making Nadia smile, even though she really didn't feel like it.
"So why didn't Skye come and get me?" Nadia asked as Ward showed her through the door that led into the living area.
"You're kidding? The beached whale coming to get you!" Ward laughed.
Nadia was confused. Skye wasn't fat.
He introduced Nadia to everyone she hadn't met before.
"You want to be careful calling your wife a beached whale. She will get her own back on you." Tilly warned him.
"Speaking of. Where is she?" Ward asked, noticing her absence.
"Bathroom."
"Make yourself at home Nadia." Coulson told her.
Nadia sat in the nearest chair and watched as the strange group of people milled around playing games of varying descriptions, reading books or simple sat talking.
"I wouldn't sit there. That's Skye's chair." Amber warned her.
"Skye has her own chair?" Nadia asked. Skye had definitely changed since she had become involved with SHIELD.
"I do. It's the only one I can get out of on my own, but I suspect that won't last that long." Skye said, slowly descending the stairs.
"Woah!" Nadia exclaimed when she saw Skye's bump. "Now I understand why your charming husband calls you a whale. I had no idea you were pregnant."
Skye looked at Ward, who immediately became busy putting the monopoly board away.
"I will kill him later. I thought I told you last time I saw you?"
"No, you didn't! Jees Skye, you expecting twins or something?"
"Or something." Skye told her while the rest of the room burst into varying degrees of laughter.
Nadia looked at Skye, searching for an answer.
"Triplets." Skye told her.
Nadia's jaw dropped in shock.
"Who's up for a game?" Skye asked, pulling Cluedo out of the game box.